RAOnline Nepal: Headlines on the Maoist Conflict - 2004

September 15 - September 21 . September 22 - September 31
September 15
2004 » Maoist bomb attack: The US embassy in Nepal has asked Washington to allow staff families to return home for security reasons.
» US military help: US government has announced it is providing more military assistance to Nepal to tackle the Maoist insurgency.
» UNICEF: The UN organization has called on "all concerned parties to the conflict" to keep schools free from violent activities.
» Peace talks: CPN UML general secretary once more repeated that the Nepali goverment is trying to initiate peace talks with the Maoists at the earliest but the Maoists are yet to give a positive response.
» Peace talks: CPN UML general secretary once more repeated that the Nepali goverment is trying to initiate peace talks with the Maoists at the earliest but the Maoists are yet to give a positive response.
» Industry closure: All Nepal Trade Union Federation has agreed to withdraw its call for closure of industries after the governemnt has fulfiled their major demands.
» Gorkha: Local people in Gorkha are asking why Maoist rebels have destroyed their Nepali financed Christian school.
September 17
2004
» Panchthar: Maoist rebels have abducted eight cadres of leftist party People's Front Nepal -PFN.
» Solukhumbu: Maoist rebels have captured the land and houses of those who fled their villages. Maoists have forced the eviction of the families for refusing to join their party.
» UNICEF: The UN organization has called on "all concerned parties to the conflict" to keep schools free from violent activities.
» Closed industries: Industries resumed their operations after an agreement between the govermnent and the pro-Maoist worker union ANFTU.
» Bara: Maoist activist exploded a powerful bomb in the office of Kalaiya Municipality. No human casualty is reported.
» Return home : U.S. Government allows nonemergency embassy staff bd their families to leave Nepal.
» U.S. Peace Corps: U.S. State Department temporarily suspended Peace Corps operations in Nepal. Earlier this year Maoist rebels had threatened to use "more violent means" if peace talks with the Nepalese government were not successful.
» Police training: About 100 Nepali policemen are undergoing training in anti-Maoist operations in India
» Udaypur: Over 100 government-run schools have shut down under the pressure of pro-Maoist ANNISU-R
September 19
2004
» UN assembly: Nepal would raise the issues of peace and security, international terrorism, Nepal's role in combating terrorism and poverty and recruitment of child soldiers by the Maoists.
» ANTUF leaders released: As agreed in the negotiations with the Maoist-affiliated All Nepal Trade Union Federation (ANTUF), the government has released two ANTUF leaders.
» Kathmandu suburb: Security forces have killed a Maoist rebel during a a shootout in Thali.
» AI calls: In a open letter Amnesty International (AI) - Asia Pacific has asked the CPN-Maoist to immediately free 12 persons abducted from different places at different times. Ealrier this month AI has published a open letter to the Royal Nepalese Army asking information on the whereabouts of disappeared Maoists.
» Abductions: Maoists have abducted several activists of Nepali Congress and Nepali Congress (Democratic) for holding a "political consultation" in Jhapa.
» Chitwan strike : Maoist activists have set vehicles on fire to enforce their call for day-long strike. The Maoists want to protest against the killings of their comrades by security personnel.
» U.S. Peace Corps: 84 volunteers of U.S. Peace Corps have left Nepal duet to threats by the Maoist rebels. Peace Corps volunteers in Nepal have been working in the health, sanitation, teaching, water and forestry fields.
» Abduction: UNICEF Nepal has expressed concern over the abduction of one of their employees by Maoist rebels in Dadeldhura.
September 21
2004
» Peace talks : The government is likely to invite the Maoist rebels for fresh rounds of talks before Dashain. This year's Dashain begins from October 15. CPN (Maoist) supremo Prachanda said earlier this month that his party want to talk with the masters (i.e. the King, the Army, India and the U.S.A.) not with their servants (i.e. the present government). "This government has no authority to hold negotiations.", the Maoist spokesman said.
» Peace Day: The International Day of Peace was observed across the country. In Kathmandu only some hundreds of participants have followed the programmes.
» Bhojpur: The Maoist rebels have abducted over 50 students.
» Foreign intervention: CPN (Maoist) is serious towards prospects of increase in foreign intervention in Nepal as the ongoing conflict intensifies.
» Sindhupalchowk: Parents, students, teachers, journalists and human rights activists have protested in a rally against the indefinite closure of educational institutions called by Maoist 's ANNFSU-R.
» Gorkha: Parents, students and teachers will resist the Maoist's order to close their Nepali financed Christian school. Sphere: Related Content